Prepress quick guide - Hansaprint

Prepress quick guide
4. Fonts
5. Proofs
• Use Adobe Type 1 or Open Type fonts. The other font types can cause a faulty appearance in our prepress process.
• A contract proof on paper must simulate the correct combination of press and paper. Use a Hansaprint ICC profile suitable for
simulation. The proof must also simulate the hue of printing paper.
• Check the validity of the proof using a quality control element like Fogra Media Wedge.
• The colours of contract proofs must be examined under standard lights D50 (5000 K).
• Deliver a proof, which correspond the final file, to Hansaprint.
• When using a softproof, simulate the image with a proper profile made by Hansaprint. Check Paper White, to ensure that the
paper shade is simulated, too. Ensure the regular calibration of your monitor.
6. Naming files
• Use only numbers 0-9 and letters a-z in a file name. Scandic and special characters are not allowed.
• Use as short a filename as possible. The maximum total length is 31 chars.
• Do not use spaces; replace them with underscore character (_).
• Use 3-digits page number(s), which correspond to the page(s) in a file. Preferably start the name with a page number, in which
case pages will be listed automatically in alphabetical order.
• If the print product contains language or other versions, always add the version to the name.
• Use a file extension at the end of the name and a period (.) before it.
• Example: 001_catalog_FIN.pdf, 002_catalog_FIN.pdf, etc.
7. Material delivery in closed format
• Deliver the print ready material in closed format, in other words as PDF files.
• If you want to use some other closed format, contact Hansaprint prepress to ensure its suitability.
• All linked files (fonts, images, logos, etc) must be included in the PDF file.
• Use Hansaprint’s PDF joboptions file for preparing. Hansaprint’s prepress system supports PDF formats 1.6 (Acrobat 7), which is
used also in the joboptions file. However, we also accept the files prepared with the formats 1.3, 1.4 and 1.5.
• You can produce the PDF file by exporting it in InDesign CS versions or saving it in Adobe Illustartor CS. With other applications
we recommend to prepare PDF via PostScript files and using e.g. Adobe Distiller for PDF making.
• Output the file with crops marks and define their offset as 5 mm (offset = distance from trim line).
• When outputting a PS file, use the paper size, which is bigger than document size, in order that bleeds and crop marks fit in the
file. 30 mm wider and higher than the paper size is enough. Use the same paper size for all pages of the product.
• Output colours as composite. Preseparated file is needed only when using layout application’s trapping.
• Print the pages as single pages, not as spreads.
• A PDF file can contain several pages, but they must be consecutive in page number order and without any empty pages. The
imposition process is clearest in the case when you deliver pages according to the principle ”one page per one file”.
8. Material delivery in open format
• You can deliver the material in open format – e.g. as InDesign documents – if you use Hansaprint’s repro services. In case you
want to use our prepress services, contact our sales department. Otherwise, we require the delivery to be as PDF files.
• Hansaprint supports only Macintosh OSX versions of the software.
• Hansaprint supports Adobe CS versions. We use the newest software versions, which are available in Finland.
9. File transfer
• Use ftp for the file transfer. The address of Hansaprint’s ftp server is ftp.hansaprint.fi.
• For the transfer you need a username and password. If you do not have the ones, ask them from your contact person.
• If you want to use another transfer method – a browser based like Kodak INSITE – inquire about it from your contact person
at Hansaprint.
10. Prepress instructions at Hansaprint’s website
• You can find more detailed prepress instructions from Hansaprint’s webpages www.hansaprint.com under the
MATERIAL INSTRUCTIONS,
• From same place you can download instruments for preparing material, like ICC profiles, joboptions files and PitStop profiles
for checking of PDF files.
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Updated 03/2013